The following are reviews from the SCUMFEAST ZINE SITE. This is gonna be ugly.
BAD RELIGION - New Maps of Hell CD
Listening to this CD is like spending time in Hell. This band had one and only one release in the 80s that was fantastic, their debut LP, and after that they went to Hell on their own way. A decade ago this formula was so boring, the band started going mainstream since the Punk Scene was so fucking bored with them too. That was when they signed with Atlantic Records and people called them "sell-outs". Hey I never gave a flying fuck about that move. Let a major deal with their boring crap and play it on elevators.
There's 16 tracks on this dink and all of them are predictably horrible and boring as fuck. But hey, the band has added keyboards to their mix. Are they on this year's WARPED TOUR? Fuck BAD RELIGION!!!!!
EPITAPH RECORDS
EPSILONS - Killed 'Em Deader "N A Six Card Poker Hand CD
This is total fucked up Garage Punk in the vein of the MUMMIES and the COUNTBACKWARDS. This thing sounds like a party that I'd like to be at, gone out of control. Hey it ain't at my house so fuck it! The EPSILONS play tummy bending, lo-fi madness Punk which is guarrenteed to get your sorry ass on the dance floor. These are fitting sounds for your next stag party or whatever rauch you're into. They have this primative sound and style that reminds me of the Garage Punk Revival of the 1990's. No wanna-be the SONICS thing going on and I love every fuckin minute of it. The EPSILONS might be provacateurs of the past but are modern day maniacs who you should be checking out.
Southern Records
GALLOWS - Orchestra of Wolves CD
Here's an English band trying very hard to be a modern day "In My Head" era BLACK FLAG. Which is kinda funny since I've heard more than my share of American bands trying to sound like 1980s English Hardcore/Oi. Whatever that mindset may be, it's funny to get a promo with quotes on it from KERRANG & NME weeks prior to the band's release. Also they're totally booked on this summer's WARPED TOUR. After six songs of this band and their tattooed screaming idiot of a vocalist, I want to slap him silly. This ain't fuckin homage at all. It's a pure waste of my goddam time.
Epitaph Records
The UNSEEN - Internal Salvation CD
This waste of a recording would of been better if a woman was singing. Instead it just sounds like a woman, a ball-less effort at it's best.
Hepcat Records
THE AGGROLITES - Reggae Hit L.A. CD
This release sucks! White bred Californians playing reggae and coming to a House of Blues near you. I remember one time JAMES AT 15 called a local college radio station and asked the DJ to play some Punk Rock. The DJ told him he was about to play some ska. which is just as bad as reggae and has nothing to do with Punk. So JAMES AT 15 laid into the DJ, scorn and ridicule was the result. Which is what I give to this release. Oh but that doesn't matter since in a few years the band members will be off attending UCLA or USC.
HELLCAT RECORDS
The FUCKING WRATH - Season of Evil CD
Here we have a band that at first fooled me into thinking they were just another stoner rock act of rehash. But after a few cuts this band really does mix BLACK SABBATH "Masters of Reality" with "Kings of Punk" era POISON IDEA Punk Fuckin Rock / Hardcore. They're a three piece from Calif. who sound as if this might be the last thing recorded on this planet. Real guy vocals that are a cry from the wilderness of music today. We should be all tired of the phoney fag boys of modern day music and this CD pushes that idea one hundred paces forward. Better yet, modern Punk/Hardcore needs a fix to it also. And except for the beginning and ending of this dink, the middle parts are faster than a cheetah late for supper. Now I know in my non-drunken episodes of living that this has been done before. Well so fuckin what? It's 2007 and we music lovers of the extreme need a band like this to kick our asses back into reality, and these three guys have done it for me.
GOODFELLOW RECORDS
SOCIETY'S PARASITES - Self Titled CD (?)
I read a review about this band from some clown who called this "old school". I think his name was Brickface or something pathetic like that. Anyway this is not "old school" Punk, bozo, unless old to you means 1988 and I'm betting it does. The term "old School" only shows that you're a ignorant hack. You know those holes on the sides of your head are not air vents. They're ears so use em. This here is simply paint by the numbers 80s hardcore. Kinda like some bands who came out of the late 80s NYC Hardcore scene, the non-metalish, non-hippie punk stuff that skinheads would start fights to at shows. You've even got four hispanic looking toughs on the back cover doing a SICK OF IT ALL style pose (Posuers?). Oh yeah and they're angry. Why, who the fuck knows since they're probably going on the Warpy Tour. Supposedly they've been around since 1997 and put out an EP in 2004. Whoopdy do, if it sounded like this then I can see why this would appeal to people 25 years of age and younger. "Oh I'm angry, I'm so angry." Stop crying ya faggot! There's a song on here called "Wishing Armageddon", you better wish that ICE doesn't show up to one of your shows. Because then they'll ship your olive skinned ass back to the other side of the border. Where you screw goats under the Mayan moon.
HELLCAT RECORDS
STRUNGOUT - Blackhawks over Los Angeles CD
This can't be the same band that I have a 7"er from? Now I really feel sorry for those WARPED TOUR attendees who listen to this crap and think that this is Punk Rock. Will somebody on here please tell me how much it costs to be a domesticated pig in this herd of loserdom? Weak crap for people with short attention spans is what is going on here. I'm ashamed to even be associated with Punk Rock aslong as this shit is considered as such.
FAT WRECK CHORDS
